[Asterisk-Dev] gnu-tls

[Tzafrir Cohen]

Hi

BTW: the quoting in your post is was not clear enough. 

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 12:14:58PM +1200, Derek Smithies wrote:

> 
> Even assuming the license of the parts of gnu-tls that we want are LGPL, 
> there are 2 issues I would mention.
> 
>    The wording of the LGPL has been described as "Tricky" and the meaning 
>    is definately up for debate. If us computer experts argue the 
>    meaning, what will a court decide ?

Huh? What problems? Any reason why companies like Sun chose to use GTK
as the binding for their GUI a couple of years ago if the license was so
questionable? Please quote a decent source. The license of OpenSSL
is certainly problematic.

Is there any problem with the gtkgui? 

> 
>   What will asterisk gain by switching to gnu-tls ? Are there verifiable 
>   flaws in the current openssl codebase ? If there are no verifiable 
>   flaws, we would swap one working system for another working system. With 
>   no gain in overall performance. A waste of effort in my view.

Not switching. Allow linking with it as well. Just as I don't suggest
that we switch to FreeBSD, Solaris or OSX's libc.

(And this was a preliminary check)

Regards,

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